Check and ticket stamp



S. D. McMILLAN.. CHECK AND TICKET STAMP. APPLICATION FIL'ED DEC. 8, 1920.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

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S. D.- McMlLLAN.

CHECK AND TICKET STAMP.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

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CHECK AND TICKET STAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

Application filed December 8, 1920. Serial No. 429,150.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. MOMIL- LAN, a citizenof the United States, residing at Lexington, in the county of Davidson and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Check and Ticket Stamp, of which the followingis a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide a device for stamping baggage checks, tickets and the like, so constructed that type carrying members may be presented one after another for operation thereby rendering it unnecessary for the operator to pick up and lay down a plurality of separate stamps.

The type carrying members are mounted on a rotor, and the invention aims to provide means whereby the rotor may be held in any desired position, releasably, thereby presenting any type carrying member in operative position.

The type carrying members on the rotor cooperate with a ribbon, and one object of the invention is to provide novel means for feeding, controlling and operating the ribbon.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it beingunderstood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can bemade without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in front elevation, a de-' vice constructed in accordance with the invention, one of the hoods being broken away; Fig.2-is a rear-elevation; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 4, parts being left in elevation; Fig. 4 is a section takenon the line 4.-4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is an elevation showing one end of the shaft; Fig. 6 is an elevation showing ing a base 2 and a standard 3 in the form of a plate, the standard 3 being supplied at its upper end with a forwardly presented bracket 4. A lug 5 is fashioned integrally with the bracket 4 and with the standard 3 and projects rearwardly from the standard. In the lower surface of the bracket 4, a recess 6 of rectangular outline is formed. 7

A dial 7 is located parallel to the stand ard 3 and includes a foot 8 attachedby se-' curing elements 9 to the base 2. The dial 7 is supplied with a forwardly extended annular flange 10 provided with seats or notches 11. dial 7 are radial inscriptions 12. If the device is 'to be used in a railroad office, the inscriptions 12 may be in the form of names of stations.

l A' shaft .14 is'journaled for rotation in the standard 3 and in the dial 7.- The rear end of the shaft 1& is provided with a squared end 16 from which a threaded stem 26 projects. A hand wheel 15 fits on the squared end 16 of the shaft 14 and is held thereon by a nut 36, threaded on the stem 26. On its forward end, the shaft 1 1 carries an elongated shoulder 17 from which a threaded stem 18 projects.

The numeral 19 denotes an arm adapted to move over the dial'7, the inner end of the arm being mounted on the shoulder17 of the shaft 14. The arm 19 is offset, as

On the outer surface of the shown at20, so that the outer end of the arm may clear the flange 10 on, the dial 7. A disk 21 is carried by the threaded stem 18 and bears against the inner end of the thus being afforded.

29 movable in the opening of the arm 19- and adapted to cotiperate with the seats or notches 11 which are fashioned in the flange 10 of the dial 7.

A rotor is located between the standard 3 and thedial 7 and is mounted on the shaft 14. The shaft14 carries a cross pin 31 received in a seat 32 formed. inthe rotor 30, to the end that when rotation is imparted to the shaft 14, the member 30 will be rotated likewise. The rotor 30 is equipped in its periphery with radial slots 33 in which wedgeshaped type bars 34 are seated, each type bar having alateral flange 35 overlapping the periphery of the rotor. Ribs 37 are formed integrally with the type bars 34 and with the flanges 35of the type bars, and aid in holding the type bars in the slots 33 of the rotor. On the outer ends of the type bars 34 are located type 38. The type 38 on each bar 34 spells out one of the inscriptions 12 on the dial 7.

i The machine includes a plunger 39, the plunger embodyinga foot 40 shaped to fit slidably in the recess 6 of the bracket 4, the

foot being held in the recess against rotation, so that the foot 40 on the plunger will always be presented parallel to the type bars 34, when the type bars are presented,

one after another,to the foot 40, when the member 30 is rotated. The foot 40 is provided with. a retainer 41 having flanges 42 holding a platen 43, which may be made of rubber,the platen being adapted to cooperate with the type bars 34. The plunger 39 embodies a stem .44 connected to the foot 40 and mounted to slide in the bracket 4, the;1 stemhaving a button 45 at its upper en The forward end of an arm 46 receives the stem 44. Acompression spring 47 surrounds a portion of the stem 44 and abuts at its lower end against the bracket 4, the upper end of the spring abutting against the arm 46. The spring 47 serves a double function, in that it constitutes means for retracting the plunger 39, andconstitutes, also,

' means for effecting apart of the ribbon feeding mechanism, to be described hereinafter. There is a socket 48 on the outer end of the arm 46, wherein a slide 49, preferably in the form of a rod, is held. The slide of rod 49 is mounted for reciprocation in the lug 5 on the standard 3.

Levers 50 are mounted on the standard 3 through the instrumentality of fulcrum members 51, the inner ends of the levers 50 being loosely pivoted to the lower end of the slide 49, as indicated at 52. Supports 53, in the form of strips, are held on the standard 3 by the fulcrum members 51 which carry the levers 50. The supports 53 inelude angular portions 54, the extremities of which rest upon the edge of the dial 7, as indicated at 55, so as to stiffen the supports 53.

Shafts 56 are journaled for rotation in the supports 53 and in the angular portions 54 thereof. The ends of a ribbon 57 are wound about the shafts 56, the ribbon passing between the rotor 30 and the foot 40 of the plunger 39, in contact with thoseof the type bars 34 which hapen to be at the top of the rotor. The ribbon 57 of course, constitutes .meanswhereby the ink is presented to the type bars 34. The ribbon 57 is covered in part by hoods 58 carried by the parts 54 of the support 53, the hoods being separated, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the platen 43 may operate therebetween, when the plunger 39 is thrust downwardly. Knobs 59 are mounted on the forward ends of the shafts 56. Bowed springstrips 60 are provided, the strips'having openings 6l, and being provided, at one end, with outstanding fingers 62. Abutments 63 are mounted on the shafts 56. The shafts 56 pass through the openings 61 in the strips 60, the ends of the strips 60 bearing on the supports 53, the fingers 62 receiving the supports 53, to prevent the spring strips 60 from rotating with the shafts 56. The intermediate portions of the strips 60 bear against the abutments 63on the shafts 56,.the strips constituting spring brakes, controlling the rotation of the shafts 56 and preventing backlash or looseness in, the ribbon 57.

Ratchet Wheels 64 are mounted on the rear ends of the shafts 56 and are engaged by. pawls 65 pivoted at 66 on the outer ends of the levers 50. Springs 67 are secured to the levers 50 and engage the pawls 65, the'pawls being constrained by the springs to cooperate with the ratchet wheels 64. Each pawl 65 is supplied at its rear end with a projection 68. Shafts 69'are journaled in the levers 50 andare accessible from the rear end of the structure, as indicated in Fig. 4. Each shaft 69 has a radially extending detent 70, adapted to be moved into and out of engagement with the projection 68 on the corresponding pawl 65.

In practical operation, rotation is imparted to the shaft 14 and to the member 30 by way of the hand wheel 15. In this way, any desired one of the inscriptions 12 may be brought to the top of the rotor 30, the corresponding type bar 34 being positioned beneath the platen 43. The finger 29 on the spring latch 27 clicks into and out of the position. A ticket orother object is in serted between the ribbon 57 and the platen 43, whereupon the plunger 39 is thrust downwardly by pressure exerted on the button 45,the spring 47 being compressed. By this operation, the inscription carried by the selected type bar 34 is imprinted on the ticket. WVhen the platen is released, the plunger 39 moves upwardly under the impulse of the spring 47.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that one of the inscriptions 12 after another may be brought readily into operative position, it being unnecessary to fish above for separate stamps, ink them, apply them to the ticket or other object, and replace the stamps in a rack, after the common and present custom.

When the plunger 39 is pressed downwardly, the arm 46 and the slide 49 are carried downwardly by the button 45; The levers 50 are tilted on their fulcra 51 and the pawl 65 on one lever cooperates with the corresponding ratchet wheel 64 and rotates the adjacent shaft 56, the ribbon 57 being fed along by this procedure. Either of the pawls 65 may be swung backwardly out of engagement with the corresponding ratchet wheel 56, the shaft 69 being rotated until the detent 7 O coiiperates with the projection 68 of the pawl, to hold the pawl out of engagement with the ratchet wheel 64, as shown at the left hand side of Fig. 2. Since there are two pawls 65, and in view of the fact that either pawl may be operated to the exclusion of the other, the ribbon 57 may be fed in one direction and then in anopposite direction. At any time, rotation may be imparted manually to the shafts 56, by way of the knobs 59, for the purpose of moving the ribbon 57. The strips move the shafts 56 endwise and press the knobs 59 against the hoods 58, a spring brake thus being provided, and backlash or looseness in the rib bon 57 being avoided.

Owing to the fact that the standard 3 is provided with the lug 5 which receives the slide 49, and owing to the way in which the arm 46 is mounted on the stem 44, there are no rearwardly projecting levers in the feeding mechanism, the compactness and strength of the device being enhanced accordingly.

There may be any desired number of the XV hen it is desired to renew or change one of the type bars 34, the type bar may-be prized out'of the rotor, through the instrumentality of a tool of any desired sort, inserted beneath theflange 35.-

,1 Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is: V l

1. In a device of. the. class described,, 'a frame comprising a standard having a forwardly presented. bracket; a type-carrying rotor journaled on the standard below the bracket; a plunger slidable in the bracket and cooperating with the rotor; a slide supported for reciprocation on the standard; an arm connecting the slide with the plunger; aribbon movable between the plunger and the rotor; and feeding mechanism for the ribbon, the feeding mechanism being operatively connected to the slide.

2. In a device of the class described, a frame comprising a standard having a forwardlypresented bracket and provided with a rearwardly extended lug located at the juncture between the standard and the bracket; a type-carrying rotor journaled on the standard below the bracket; a plunger slidable in the bracket and coiiperating with the rotor; a slide mounted to reciprocate in the lug; an arm connecting the slide with the plunger; a ribbon movable between the plunger and the rotor; and feeding mechanism for the ribbon, the feeding mechanjlsm being operatively connected to the sli e. r

3. In a device of the class described, a frame; a type-carrying rotor journaled in the frame; aplunger mounted to. reciprocatein the frame and coiiperating with'the rotor; shafts journaled inthe frame; a ribbon wound about the shafts and extended between the plunger and the rotor; ratchet wheels on the shafts; levers fulcrumed on the frame; pawls carried by the levers and co6perating with the ratchet wheels; means for holding either pawl out'of engagement 7 with the corresponding ratchet wheel; a slide'mounted to reciprocate in the frame and connected to the levers; and means for connecting the slide with theplunger.

4. In a device of the class described, a

base; a standard carried by the base; a dial carried bythe base; a shaft journaled in the standard and in the dial; a type-carrying rotor mounted on the shaft and located between the standard and the dial; a plunger mounted to reciprocate in the standard and cotiperating with the rotor; an arm secured to the shaft and movable over-the dial; and a resilient latch mounted on the arm, the dial having a forwardly presented annular flange provided with seats for the reception of the latch.

carried by the base; a shaft journaled in the standard and in the dial; atypeicarrying rotor mounted on the shaft and located between the'standard and the dial; a plunger meunted to reciprocate iii the standard and as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signacoiipera-ting with the rotor; anfirm secured ture in the presence of two witnesses.

to the shaft and movable over t e dia and i T a resilient latch mounted on the arm", the SAMUEL M l dial being provided with seats for the recep- Witnesses:

tion of the latch. F RED C. LINK,

In testimony that I claim the feregoing E. E. WITHIERSPOON. 

